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THE STEALING OF THE VEIL,
OR THE
TALE À LA MONTGOLFIER.
THE ſituation of the Swansfield near Zwikow, in the mountains called, from the abundance of their ores, Ertzgebirge, is well known. The name is derived from a pool, entitled the Swan’s pool, which is at preſent nearly but not quite dried up. The water of this pool poſſeſſes an efficacy unknown to the Pyrmont, Carlſbad, Spa, or any other medicinal ſpring in Germany, or even to the king’s bath at Piſa in Italy, or the wells to which the turtle-fed victims of Engliſh luxury repair, in the vain hope of making a ſhaking hand ſteady, or reſtoring to aſhrivelled
